Nevada running back Lampford Mark runs for a 57-yard touchdown against New Mexico State on Nov. 20. Mark has a torn ACL and will be out the rest of the season.

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Boise State coach Chris Petersen and his Broncos players dealt with a feeling this weekend that they don't often have to stomach. The feeling of losing. It didn't sit well.

"Crushing," Petersen said of the way he felt after losing to Nevada, 34-31, on Friday night. "There's no easy way around it. It's crushing. The entire team, the community, everybody, is crushed. We had chances to get it done and couldn't get it done. A lot was at stake. There's no getting around it."

The loss extinguished Boise State's hope of playing for a national championship, a goal the program had been building toward for ...